UPDATE: After theft, students pony up for Pope replacement

Days after a beloved cardboard cutout of Pope Francis was stolen from the McGinley Center lobby — and it became clear the culprit would not come forward — students rallied to pay for a new one.

The replacement arrived on campus Monday afternoon.

And with that, Rose Hill took a deep breath.

“HE IS BACK- rather, he is a new one- a gift from friends of our ministry,” Fr. Phil Florio, S.J. wrote in a Facebook posting, noting that the first cutout remains absent.

Do-gooders running the Fordham Compliments Facebook page asked followers to raise $60 so that Campus Ministry could purchase a replacement cutout. Enough money was raised by six people in one hour, according to the donation website.

While many on campus have vocalized support for the fundraising effort, others have challenged its necessity.

This is it: Fordham Daily’s last post! Breathe a sigh of relief, shed a tear — I’ll be doing both. I’ll always remember what my dad, a proud Fordham grad with a philosophy degree, told me just before we parted ways in front of Queen’s Court — the building he had inhabited some 30 years earlier — on a […]